parangolé
The verdict
“parangolé” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #69,054 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,054
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - conversa fiada
Corpus desk
Index PT-parangole · parangolé · Portuguese
parangolé · rank #69,054 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,054
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH palpitação
Nearest frequency peer: palpitação (-2 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “parangolé”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- palpitação
palpitação
30,949 corpus weight
- parangolé
parangolé
30,947 corpus weight
- pavimentar
pavimentar
30,942 corpus weight
- penar
penar
30,939 corpus weight
- pensionista
pensionista
30,936 corpus weight
- perceção
perceção
30,934 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “parangolé” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parangolé |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #69,054 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “parangolé” em português
Rare enough to double-check
parangolé is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #69,054 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for parangolé, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is parangolé, spelled P-A-R-A-N-G-O-L-É.
Definition
- 1conversa fiada
- 2mistura de manto aristocrático com capa de mendigo
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how parangolé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Da África, o escritor traz a indumentária com que fixará sua imagem até o fim: um parangolé beatnik, jaqueta jeans recosturada que usa como fraldão em torno do corpo.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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